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About Goldman & Co. - Law Offices

Goldman & Co. Law Offices is one of Israel’s leading law firms in Israel in the categories of taxation (civil and criminal) and all types of fiscal crimes, including specialization in Money Laundering Law. The firm puts a special emphasis on professionalism and creativity which are essential tools offering clients innovative and added value solutions. The firm believes in searching practical solutions and avoids struggles and wars as a goal, except for cases that require representing the clients in the various instances and exhausting maximal proceedings. Goldman & Co. has experience in dozen of complex tax and money laundering cases, before and behind the scenes, and representation of the largest cases in Israel, settling them in or outside the court. The firm strives to find customized, “out of the box” solutions for its clients.

Areas of Practice

Advanced Taxation Solutions

The firm provides a wide range of legal services in the taxation area, including: Income Tax, V.A.T, real estate taxation, international taxation, Purchase Tax, Customs, as well as money laundering law, both from the civil and criminal facets. The firm accompanies and consults, among others, in the planning of large transactions and complex moves in Israel and abroad, tax planning and aspects, including acquisitions, structural changes, sale of holdings, joint ventures, real estate projects and investments with all their unique features. The firm deals in taxation for individuals, companies, associations, partnerships, non-profit organizations and other entities and accompanies its clients in all stages, starting from planning, administration, pre-ruling and ruling) and special arrangements, in order to respond also to special cases which do not clearly appear in the framework of the law provisions. The firm renders opinions to all the instances and litigates in court, defending and being supported by expert opinions.

Economic Crimes – White Collar

In addition to its specialization in the civil field, Goldman & Co. is one of the leading firms in Israel for representation in tax offenses, money laundering, economic and white collar crimes. The firm has special expertise in these areas, among others due to its involvement in legislation and provisions. The firm has a wide practice and vast experience in proceedings vis-à-vis the authorities, including voluntary disclosure, forfeit petitions, complex plea bargains (also settling the civil trial), investigation representation and accompaniment and criminal proceedings in the field. The firm is well experienced in complex investigations (mega cases), involving a large scope of investigative material, many interrogees, forfeiture (including temporary), accounts freezing and recovery of assets forfeited during raids. The firm has also vast experience in international issues, including investigative authority rights vis-à-vis foreign countries, relying on its extensive knowledge regarding the mutual ties between the civil and the criminal aspect and the relations among the various authorities. The firm accompanies large cases in these areas (mega cases), both in indictments and in investigation, property seizure and temporary forfeitures proceedings, release from freezing, bank accounts freezing, release of funds seized at the borders and sanction committees, procedures on license suspension of currency service providers, final forfeiture procedures and more.

Real Estate and Real Estate Taxation

Goldman & Co. has vast experience in representation, accompaniment and legal advice on taxation for all types of real estate transactions. The firm handles, among others, purchase groups, combination deals, evacuation and building, National Outline Plan projects (“Tama 38”) and more. The firm accompanies various entities in negotiations, transaction planning, contracts drawing, including acquisition, partnership, execution, financing and joint venture contracts, in accordance with the firm’s expertise in the tax area.

Financial services providers

As part of the firm’s specialization, the firm accompanies financial service providers/credit service providers, and so forth, both in terms of compliance and regulation. In this framework, the firm also appears before a sanctions committee and with relevant organizations in the Ministry of Finance and the Authority for the Prohibition of White Laundering.

Commercial and Business Law

Goldman & Co.’s clients enjoy from professional services also in the commercial and business law, both from the taxation and commercial aspect. This combination enables to maximize the service to the clients in those types of transactions.

Litigation

The firm has extensive experience in litigation in all instances and legal and quasi-legal tribunals, including arbitrations and mediations both in the civil and the criminal levels. In many cases the firm makes use of the vast expertise acquired over the years to accompany the clients from the first stages, granting them a tactical advantage in later litigation proceedings. The firm believes in managing a unique strategy tailored to each case, rather than just managing the procedures, keeping in mind the goal set by the client and the firm.

Masfax – The Professional Tax Journal

In the framework of its activities, the firm edits MasFax, The Professional Tax Newsletter, distributed among thousands of readers weekly/every two weeks, for many years. Masfax is the leading professional journal in the taxation area in Israel. The journal concludes in 6 pages all the events in the tax world during that week, including current updates on ruling and verdicts in the field, legislation, tax experts articles, execution orders updates, professional circulars, Tax Authority publications and editorials to the relevant issues. The journal is also distributed at the website: www.masfax.co.il.